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First published online 27 March 2007
doi: 10.1242/jcs.004739

Journal of Cell Science 120, 1423-1435 (2007)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2007
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Research Article

FHL3 binds MyoD and negatively regulates myotube formation

Denny L. Cottle, Meagan J. McGrath, Belinda S. Cowling, Imogen D. Coghill, Susan Brown and Christina A. Mitchell*

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton, 3800, Australia

* Author for correspondence (e-mail: Christina.Mitchell{at}med.monash.edu.au)

Accepted 14 February 2007

MyoD initiates muscle differentiation and promotes skeletal myogenesis by regulating temporal gene expression. MyoD-interacting proteins induce regulatory effects, and the identification of new MyoD-binding partners may provide mechanistic insights into the regulation of gene expression during myogenesis. FHL3 is one of three members of the FHL protein family that are expressed in skeletal muscle, but its function in myogenesis is unknown. Overexpression of human FHL3 in mouse C2C12 cells retarded myotube formation and decreased the expression of muscle-specific regulatory genes such as myogenin but not MyoD. By contrast, short interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated FHL3 protein knockdown enhanced myoblast differentiation associated with increased myogenin, but not MyoD protein expression, early during differentiation. We demonstrate that FHL3 is a MyoD-associated protein by direct binding assays, colocalisation in the nucleus of myoblasts and GST pull-down studies. Moreover, we determined that FHL3 interacts with MyoD, functioning as its potent negative co-transcriptional regulator. Ectopic expression of FHL3 in myoblasts impaired MyoD-mediated transcriptional activity and muscle gene expression. By contrast, siRNA-mediated FHL3 knockdown enhanced MyoD transcriptional activity in a dose-dependent manner. These findings reveal that FHL3 association with MyoD may contribute to the regulation of MyoD-dependent transcription of muscle genes and thereby myogenesis.

Key words: MyoD, Myogenesis, FHL, FHL3, LIM


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